Materials, physics and systems for multicaloric cooling

H Hou, S Qian, I Takeuchi - Nature Reviews Materials, 2022‏ - nature.com
Calls to minimize greenhouse gas emissions and demands for higher energy efficiency
continue to drive research into alternative cooling and refrigeration technologies. The caloric …

Caloric materials for cooling and heating

X Moya, ND Mathur - Science, 2020‏ - science.org
Magnetically driven thermal changes in magnetocaloric materials have, for several decades,
been exploited to pump heat near room temperature. By contrast, their electrocaloric and …

Electrocaloric cooling materials and devices for zero-global-warming-potential, high-efficiency refrigeration

J Shi, D Han, Z Li, L Yang, SG Lu, Z Zhong, J Chen… - Joule, 2019‏ - cell.com
Electrocaloric cooling technologies, enabled by the discovery of the giant electrocaloric
effect in dielectrics more than a decade ago, represents a zero-global-warming-potential …

Thin-film ferroelectric materials and their applications

LW Martin, AM Rappe - Nature Reviews Materials, 2016‏ - nature.com
Ferroelectric materials, because of their robust spontaneous electrical polarization, are
widely used in various applications. Recent advances in modelling, synthesis and …

Colossal barocaloric effects in plastic crystals

B Li, Y Kawakita, S Ohira-Kawamura, T Sugahara… - Nature, 2019‏ - nature.com
Refrigeration is of vital importance for modern society—for example, for food storage and air
conditioning—and 25 to 30 per cent of the world's electricity is consumed for refrigeration …

Caloric materials near ferroic phase transitions

X Moya, S Kar-Narayan, ND Mathur - Nature materials, 2014‏ - nature.com
A magnetically, electrically or mechanically responsive material can undergo significant
thermal changes near a ferroic phase transition when its order parameter is modified by the …

Large electrocaloric response and high energy-storage properties over a broad temperature range in lead-free NBT-ST ceramics

WP Cao, WL Li, XF Dai, TD Zhang, J Sheng… - Journal of the European …, 2016‏ - Elsevier
The improvement of the electrocaloric effect (ECE) in (1− x)(Na 0.5 Bi 0.5) TiO 3− x SrTiO3
(NBT-ST) lead-free relaxor ferroelectric ceramics was determined by indirect measurements …

Direct and indirect measurements on electrocaloric effect: Recent developments and perspectives

Y Liu, JF Scott, B Dkhil - Applied Physics Reviews, 2016‏ - pubs.aip.org
It has been ten years since the discovery of the giant electrocaloric effect in ferroelectric
materials showed that it is possible to employ this effect for substantial cooling applications …

Electrocaloric materials for future solid-state refrigeration technologies

M Valant - Progress in Materials Science, 2012‏ - Elsevier
The electrocaloric (EC) effect is an adiabatic and reversible temperature change that occurs
in a polar material upon application of an electric field. The current intensive research in EC …

Demonstration of high efficiency elastocaloric cooling with large ΔT using NiTi wires

J Cui, Y Wu, J Muehlbauer, Y Hwang… - Applied Physics …, 2012‏ - pubs.aip.org
Vapor compression (VC) is by far the most dominant technology for meeting all cooling and
refrigeration needs around the world. It is a mature technology with the efficiency of modern …